Retrieval of moisture from slant-path water vapor observations of a hypothetical GPS network using a three-dimensional variational scheme with anisotropic background error

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 933-949

  Liu, Haixia ^a   Xue, Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; VAPORS;

ANISOTROPIC BACKGROUND ERROR; ANISOTROPIC SPATIAL FILTER; BACKGROUND ERROR COVARIANCES; SLANT-PATH WATER VAPOR (SWV); THREE-DIEMNSIONAL VARIATIONAL SCHEME;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; GPS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 33646254414     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3105.1     Document Type: Article

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